A Collegial Practice Where You Can Thrive

As an advanced practice provider (APP) with Sound Physicians, you will work in an environment that promotes the Sound core values of integrity, teamwork, service, quality, and innovation enjoying a sustainable career with programs consistently staffed to levels that facilitate a manageable workload for our hospital teams. At Sound Physicians, we recognize the value that you bring when you are empowered to work at the top of your license. We invest in robust onboarding and training as you assimilate into a new role at a new hospital. We support you to provide the excellent care you long to give each patient through ongoing professional development and ongoing feedback on your clinical performance.

Meadows Health is a community, short-term acute-care level III trauma center with a cardiac cath lab, a 15,000-square-foot cancer center, and a skilled nursing center on campus. Meadows Health was named one of the 100 Top Hospitals lists by Thomson Reuters and one of the 2012 100 Great Community Hospitals by Becker’s Hospital Review.

• 6 physicians, 2 advanced practitioners, and a clinical performance nurse
• Co-managed ICU with 24/7 tele-intensivist support
• No procedures required
• Hospitalists run codes
• No call
• Access SoundInstitute™ learning platform for continuing education and professional career development with convenient online and in-person educational courses, including CME

Requirements of Advanced Practitioners

Our talented providers are the key to fulfilling our mission. We focus on optimizing the practice environment so our providers can feel really proud of the care they give. This is the key to engagement. We optimize workloads effectively, reducing inefficiencies and consistently exceeding expectations through service excellence to our providers.

• Perform evaluation and management services to patients requiring hospitalist services with the hospitalist practice
• Develop treatment plans
• Complete admissions from ED
• Perform dictation of H&P examinations
• Cross-cover for the hospitalist team
• Perform such other responsibilities as reasonably assigned by the chief hospitalist and within NP/PA scope of practice
• Current, unrestricted license in Georgia; minimum of one-year hospitalist experience as an ACNP or PA; FNPs with specific hospitalist experience accepted

Location & Lifestyle

Vidalia is a historic town in southeast Georgia with a population of 11,000 and is conveniently located between Atlanta, 2 and 1/2 hours to the North, and Savannah, an hour and a 1/2 to the south Vidalia is best known for its patented sweet onions. Residents enjoy pleasant weather with year-round outdoor activities such as fishing, camping, hiking, and boating down the mighty Altamaha River. The historic downtown districts host a variety of dining and shopping options. Vidalia is a quiet, quaint town to raise a family and the cost of living and crime is substantially lower than in many other cities in Georgia.